Photograph: Cartoon Movement/VJMovement/LSE
The London School of Economics is hosting an exhibition of cartoons that address issues of justice and security. The images are provided by the VJM’s Cartoon Movement, a global collaborative platform for editorial cartoons and comics journalism. The exhibition in London runs until 17 February
Photograph: Anna and Elena Balbusso
Striking illustrations from a new edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale:
As we wait in our double line, the door opens and two more women come in, both in the red dresses and white wings of the Handmaids. One of them is vastly pregnant; her belly, under her loose garment, swells triumphantly. There is a shifting in the room, a murmur, an escape of breath; despite ourselves we turn our heads, blatantly, to see better; our fingers itch to touch her. She’s a magic presence to us, an object of envy and desire, we covet her. She’s a flag on a hilltop, showing us what can still be done: we too can be saved.
Photograph: Harper Collins
Cartoonist Ronald Searle’s drawings for his wife Monica, as she was treated for a rare and virulent form of cancer over a five-year period in the early 1970s. She survived, and the intimate drawings stand as a moving testimony to love and hope
Illustration: Graham Roumieu
From Douglas Coupland’s latest book, Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People:
With a demented cackle, he walked away as the trash burned. Then he burst into a military marching song: I’m a juice box, I’ve been told. Doom and mayhem good as gold. Don’t you ever mess with me. I will steep your bones for tea 1. 2. 3. 4. Juice box guts are on the floor. 5. 6. 7. 8. Death and I are on a date.
Photograph: Images courtesy of the Koestler Trust
Puzzled, Anon, HM Prison Manchester - part of the Koestler Trust exhibition of artworks by prisoners at London’s Southbank Centre
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